Enkindle vs Actuate - What's the difference?
enkindle | actuate | Related terms |
To kindle; to arouse or evoke.
* 1603-06, William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act 1, Scene 3:
* 1809, Philip Freneau, "Occasioned By a Legislation Bill proposing a Taxation upon Newspapers":
To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.
* Johnson
To incite to action; to motivate.
* 1748 . HUME, David Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. 2. ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 11.
* Addison
Enkindle is a related term of actuate.
As verbs the difference between enkindle and actuate
is that enkindle is to kindle; to arouse or evoke while actuate is to activate, or to put into motion; to animate.enkindle
English
Verb
(enkindl)- That, trusted home, might yet enkindle you unto the crown, besides the Thane of Cawdor.
- "By them enkindled , every heart grew warm, / "By them excited, all were taught to arm,
actuate
English
Verb
(actuat)- Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion.
- A man in a fit of anger, is actuated in a very different manner from one who only thinks of that emotion.
- Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it.
